ISLAMABAD: The rise in polio instances in Pakistan continues because the nation reported one other case of the virus in 2025, ARY Information reported.
In keeping with NEOC, the polio case was reported in Thatta Sindh, convey the entire provincial quantity in 2025 to 4 and countrywide to 6.
Yesterday, Pakistan Polio Eradication Program, detected two polio instances in Qambar district in Sindh and Mandi Bahauddin district in Punjab. This brings the entire variety of polio instances in Pakistan to 5 since January 2025.
The newest improvement comes as well being staff conclude a focused vaccination drive in high-risk areas later Friday. Earlier this month, authorities launched a weeklong nationwide anti-polio marketing campaign aiming to immunize 44.2 million kids beneath the age of 5.
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Escorted by police, polio groups go door-to-door to manage the oral vaccine. Because the Nineties, greater than 200 polio staff and the police assigned to guard them have been killed in assaults.
There have been 74 polio instances recorded in 2024, the earlier 12 months. Of them, one every got here from Punjab and Islamabad, whereas 27 got here from Balochistan, 22 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and 23 from Sindh.
In keeping with authorities, the primary nationwide polio marketing campaign of 2025 was efficiently concluded, with 99% of the targets achieved throughout the nation.
The marketing campaign was carried out from February 3 to 9, 2025. Throughout this marketing campaign, greater than 45 million kids had been administered the polio vaccine.
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Polio is a paralyzing illness that has no treatment. A number of doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all kids beneath the age of 5 is crucial to supply kids excessive immunity in opposition to this horrible illness.
The Pakistan Polio Program conducts a number of mass vaccination drives in a 12 months, bringing the vaccine to kids at their doorsteps, whereas the Expanded Program on Immunization gives vaccinations in opposition to 12 childhood illness freed from cost at well being amenities.
It’s essential for folks to make sure vaccination for all their kids beneath the age of 5 to maintain them protected.